Makayla's Birthday Party

We celebrated Makayla's first birthday a week ago and I am just now getting to post about it. As you will be able to see from the pictures we did a ladybug theme. Her room is decorated with ladybugs, so we thought it would be fun to have a birthday party with the same theme.

~Here are some of the decorations from the party. Caleb made the pin-the-spot on the ladybug poster! What a cute dad!~

I decided to be crafty and make Makayla's first birthday cake. Yes that is right I baked a cake and decorated it! Everyone said that I was crazy for doing it, but hey she only turns one once!

I made the ladybug cake and the other one we got from Costco for everyone to enjoy!

We bought Makayla a ladybug outfit for the special occasion. Here she is showing it off! Also here is one of her with her daddy! I love these two!

Makayla's babysitter made a ton of cute bows for her hair and how fitting it was that she made ladybug ones! I was ecstatic!

We had lots of family and friends over for the occasion and it was a lot of fun! We had a BBQ and sat and enjoyed each others company. Makayla enjoyed opening presents and would give "loves" to all of the soft things she got. Thanks so much for all the great gifts from everyone!

Then came the best part of the night. The first birthday cake! Well it didn't turn out as I had expected, but it was still funny. I was hoping that she would dive right in and rip the cake apart, but that couldn't have been further from what she actually did.

Here she is "LOOKING" at the cake!

Here she is "TOUCHING" the cake!

Let us just say she hated her birthday cake that I spent hours on. She wouldn't even go near it. We tried to help her out and you can see from above her reaction to just touching the cake. We tried to stick her in the middle of it and she did all she could to twist herself so she wouldn't touch the cake at all! We have video of it and it is so funny. I can't wait to show it to her when she is older. So much for her loving her first cake, oh well it was still a cute cake!

Makayla had a great party! Thanks again to all who came and celebrated this day with us!!